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Visionary Villain

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Visionary Villain	comment	Villains commit crimes for many reasons, frequently petty and short-sighted. Occasionally though, there are villains with a clear goal behind committing their atrocities; some great, some terrible, all terrifyingly well executed. These are Visionary Villains, who see "the big picture", and have a clear head about what they want to accomplish and how to do it without juggling a Villain Ball. They are defined by the word "Ambition", and no matter how noble their intentions are, fundamentally want to change things and pridefully think they know best. As antagonists, their morality can be anywhere on the scale from Well-Intentioned Extremist to Complete Monster; all that changes is the motivation for wanting to achieve their goal. The common thread is that they have seen the state of the world and want to change it, whether into something better or worse varies. A sympathetic villain may want to kill the people responsible for their Dark and Troubled Past and Freudian Excuse so it never happens to someone else, perhaps becoming an avenging angel or antihero of sorts. On the other hand, a laughing monstrous Card Carrying Straw Nihilist may want to Take Over the World (or end it) because they see society as nothing more than a poor Masquerade, and peeling it away will expose the true face of humanity. If they assemble a team or organization around themselves, expect them to give at least one New Era Speech to less ambitious, clear-sighted, or bright minions. Their individual styles of leadership are often directly related to their goal. A charismatic Dark Messiah may gather followers and teach them Utopia Justifies the Means, an Evil Overlord will rally The Empire to realize their vision of a peaceful unified One World Order, and a Mad Scientist will create Tree People not for pure science, but to replace a planet-killing humanity. The two powers all Visionary Villains share are a big brain and silver tongue. This trope is a part of what Nietzsche said defined the Ãœbermensch, so villainous characters who evoke that trope are also this by definition. Contrast Cut Lex Luthor a Check and Disappointed by the Motive. The opposite of Punch-Clock Villain and Generic Doomsday Villain. Minor or petty villains who yell "Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!" frequently sneer at this. noreallife
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Visionary Villain / int_113d7fa	comment	Rengoku: According to the second game, the chairman of Deucalion Group, Virgil, have deduced that his ADAMs are the better lifeforms than humans, added a secret purpose to the Purgatory tower to help them develop self-awareness. In case they grow conscious like Captain Gram, the AI manager Deucalion would unleash them to the world. Ironically, Gram Was Once a Man and escapes himself after humanity have long went extinct.
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Visionary Villain / int_11c2ec2c	comment	Fallen King has Pegasus, who gleefully explains his plan to reshape the world in his image and to his rules.
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Visionary Villain / int_121022b1	comment	The Grace of Kings: Emperor Mapidere genuinely wanted to lead the Daro States into an era of unity, peace, progress, and scholarship. Unfortunately, he couldn't accept constructive criticism and believed his vision justified any amount of human misery along the way, so he quickly took a nosedive into tyranny, but even his critics admit that there were some positive elements to his reign.
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Visionary Villain / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: Ozymandias slaughtered half of New York, killing millions, in an attempt to save the rest of the world from a nuclear apocalypse. Though as Doomsday Clock shows, he ends up failing when the plan is revealed and now he has a new plan involving killing both Dr. Manhattan and Superman.
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Visionary Villain / int_12998143	comment	From Terrible Writing Advice during the episode on Dark Lord's, JP takes a moment to give an example of this trope with the Dark Lord character, who looks at a mirror of himself and sees a hero, but laments having gone too far down the path of villainy and regrets it, only to shatter the mirror and proclaim "I AM THE HERO EVEN IF YOU CAN'T SEE IT" in a defiant unwillingness to face the truth.
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Visionary Villain / int_1367cea0	comment	Skitter of Worm eventually develops into one of these, taking over a city's criminal underworld on the grounds that she can make it run more efficiently and with less violent crimes or drug addictions if she's in charge, and creating alliances with other supervillains that mandate their aid to fight the Endbringers. Accord is another example-he became a supervillain so that he could gather contacts and resources to implement his plan to end world hunger-a plan that none of the heroes or governments he proposed it to gave a moment of thought. Coil laid out a plan for taking control of the villains, heroes, and civilian government within Brockton Bay so he could minimize conflict. He would then have his first villain recruits be "forced out" and set up shop in other cities to establish similar regimes.
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Visionary Villain / int_192d8971	comment	On Homeland, terrorist mastermind and Big Bad until he was finally killed Abu Nazir had a very long-term plan to eventually destroy Western Civilization, admitting that it might take centuries and many lost lives on both sides, but envisioned his side winning in the very long term, since he thinks they are willing to sacrifice more.
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Visionary Villain / int_1a5d1224	comment	Zack from The Mental State may not be exactly 'evil', but certain has lofty ambitions, a brutal streak, and a devious mind. His schemes ultimately result in him imposing his own concept of morality on the entire American prison system.
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Visionary Villain / int_1aacbbc9	comment	In Dragon Age, the Architect in Awakening is explicitly referred to as being this by Velanna after the reveal that his "Evil Plan" was to use Grey Warden blood to sever the Darkspawn's connection to the Archdemon, with the sole intention of granting his brethren intelligence and self-awareness, rather than trying to rule over them. The Warden can admit his plan could lead to peace and can choose to ally with him.
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Visionary Villain / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Aizen. Although his initial motivation seems to be primarily Despotism Justifies the Means with a dash of For the Evulz, the end of his fight with Ichigo suggests a deeper motivation concerning a disgust with how the Soul Society is run, especially in regards to the role (or seemingly lack of one) played by the Soul King. Claiming that just accepting the world as it is like Urahara told him to be the mentality of the weak while the strong force the world to conform to their ideals.
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Visionary Villain / int_1d6f193a	comment	Shepherd Artorious Collbrande from Tales of Berseria: Engage in Emotion Suppression on the entire world so that malevolence stops spreading, creating a utopia of perfectly obedient, purely logical people.
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Visionary Villain / int_1f140feb	comment	The Silmarillion: Back at the very beginning, Morgoth wanted to create a world of his own imagination, and when he found that impossible, settled for wrecking up the world that was actually created.
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Visionary Villain / int_20e955d2	comment	Leviathan: The Tempest: This is a large part of what sets the School of the Sun apart from other Leviathans. While most Schools accept Marduk's defeat of Tiamat and focus on living with and managing the downsides of the Leviathan nature, the School of the Sun believe that if only they can accumulate enough worshippers and eldritch power, they can descend to the status of a true God of Evil, tear down human civilization, and restore the Primordial Chaos over which the Leviathans once ruled.
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Visionary Villain / int_22147342	comment	Arrow: Season 1 Big Bad Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer has the Undertaking, a plan to "save" the city by destroying the crime-infested Glades, not caring that it will kill hundreds (if not more) in the process. Sebastian Blood, The Heavy of Season 2, is a Dark Messiah who wants to use Mirakuru to create an army of Super Soldiers, that he'll then use to destroy the existing elitist society of Starling City so that he can build something better in its place. When he ultimately realizes that his benefactor, Slade, intends to just destroy the whole city as Revenge by Proxy on Oliver, Blood betrays him by giving the heroes the Mirakuru cure, which leads to his death at Isabel's hands. Dr. Ivo, the Disc-One Final Boss of Season 2's flashback storyline, wants to use the Mirakuru to improve mankind and eliminate disease. And he's willing to experiment on and murder whomever he has to in order to achieve this. General Shrieve, the Final Boss of Season 3's flashback storyline, wants to use the Alpha/Omega bioweapon to devastate China, in order to prevent it from becoming a threat to America's political power. Damien Darhk, the Big Bad of Season 4, takes the Dark Archer's plans to their logical extreme, intending to destroy the world in a nuclear bombardment, and then rebuild from his ashes with his chosen followers.
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Visionary Villain / int_22fa3992	comment	On The Expanse, The Conspiracy behind the protomolecule has grand designs: They started researching it because they discovered that Phoebe was in fact an extrasolar object that would have hit Earth two billion years in the past. The only reason humanity exists is because Phoebe was caught by Saturn's gravity â€” the interstellar equivalent of a Pocket Protector. Their chief researcher is an Evilutionary Biologist who seems even more interested in it because it's Imported Alien Phlebotinum; Just Think of the Potential!!
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Visionary Villain / int_23bc247b	comment	In Equestria: A History Revealed, the rebellious General Thunderhide chooses to ally himself with the clearly questionable Nightmare Moon out of his desire to shape Equestria into a better place, seeing this goal to be impossible under the continued rule of Celestia.
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Visionary Villain / int_2669fd85	comment	The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: Subverted. Falco talks a big game about bringing back the glories of The Time of Myths, ushering the world into a new era of peace and prosperity, but is just a vicious, megalomaniacal Evil Sorcerer out for power.
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Visionary Villain / int_2675c915	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Hive, the Big Bad of Season 3, ultimately reveals his Evil Plan is to transform the entire human race into Inhumans, whom his powers will allow him to control, thus bringing about world peace. Holden Radcliffe, one of the main antagonists of Season 4, becomes obsessed with creating a virtual world, designed to be free of regret into which he can place every person on the planet, to live in paradise forever.
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Visionary Villain / int_2819aebd	comment	Mega Man music projects seem prone to this: the foremost of Wily's goals as told by The Megas is to replace humans with robots, which he believes are superior.
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Visionary Villain / int_2a8d8e6f	comment	Gotham: Ra's al Ghul, naturally, who in this adaptation can literally see bits of the future. He sees Bruce's great destiny and is dedicated to helping Bruce reach it by making him his heir. Jeremiah Valeska as well, who claims in the season 4 finale that his previous plans "lacked vision" and that Ra's opened his eyes to a greater purpose; namely, turning Bruce into the Dark Knight and preparing the city for his arrival. Which involves shooting Selina Kyle and then blowing the bridges to the mainland and turning Gotham into a lawless hellhole.
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Visionary Villain / int_2af4f467	comment	Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. While some of his plans are certainly out there, others are actually quite clever, such as the Synthoid infiltration plan (which would've worked if he hadn't pissed off Destro to the point Destro allied with G.I. Joe to put him in his place). He also understands the value of PR and propaganda, using them more than once against the Joes. Most notably, he's a firm believer in the power of money; one of his more notable schemes involved causing all the paper money in the US to turn to ash, and then taking advantage of the subsequent economic chaos to get everyone to invest in "Cobra Currency". Even in his appearance in The Transformers, when asked if his Synthoid technology is still available and for sale, he laughingly responds, "This is the world. Everything is for sale!"
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Visionary Villain / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	On Heroes, most of the Big Bads (Mr. Linderman, Adam Monroe, and Arthur Petrelli) are Visionary Villains. Linderman is a Dark Messiah whose plan to "heal the world" begins with the destruction of New York City, Monroe is a Misanthrope Supreme who wants to kill off 93% of the human race with a super-virus, and Petrelli is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to use a Super Serum to move the human race up the evolutionary ladder.
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Visionary Villain / int_2cc4abd9	comment	Waternoose in Monsters, Inc. intends to solve the looming energy crisis in the monsters' world and simultaneously revolutionize the scaring industry by kidnapping children and forcibly extracting their screams.
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Visionary Villain / int_2d186a5d	comment	Chika Itou in Moonrise is not necessarily evil, but other characters consider her a villain for her outlandish ideas about breaking Masquerade and establishing The Unmasqued World. The Player Character can side with Chika and recruit powerful allies to the cause, or slaughter them wholesale.
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Visionary Villain / int_2d644371	comment	The Tales Series tends to be rife with these villains as Big Bads. It's rare to find a main antagonist that doesn't have some sort of vision for the world, making them into an Anti-Villain by giving them a sympathetic motive while undergoing monstrous actions. Most of the bad guys even admit what they're doing is cruel, but see it as Necessarily Evil. In fact, the heroes of any Tales game often come to agree with the motive, but not the method, finding a way to accomplish the goal with less death and destruction, with each Final Boss as a clash of ideals. Yggdrassil from Tales of Symphonia: Initially, he sought to end Fantastic Racism and the endless magitek wars by keeping the world in Medieval Stasis. Over time, his priorities shifted and he gained enough power and technology to become a god, building an artificial Heaven and creating a race of 'angels' by augmenting half-elves with exspheres powered by human souls. The only thing he was missing was a goddess to balance him out, so he bred the Chosen bloodline to create a vessel to revive his older sister as a goddess. Except she immediately calls him out for losing his mind and plunging the world into Hell for his own benefit, then willfully sacrifices herself to save the human girl used as her vessel, and Yggdrassil grabs the Villain Ball for dear life from there. Dorian General Van Grants from Tales of the Abyss: Rescue a world that is sickeningly dependent on Because Destiny Says So from its eventual destruction by replacing everything in said world with perfect replicas that cannot be predicted, thus managing to Screw Destiny. King Gaius from Tales of Xillia: Gather all of the planet's weapons in one place so that the strong can't prey on the weak, and use spyrite to force spirits to undo the wars that would tear apart humanity. Shepherd Artorious Collbrande from Tales of Berseria: Engage in Emotion Suppression on the entire world so that malevolence stops spreading, creating a utopia of perfectly obedient, purely logical people.
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Visionary Villain / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Pain, Obito and Madara of Naruto have clear goals and plans to achieve the utopia they envision. The first wanted to create a system similar to the Cold War doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction, while the latter two veer more towards a standard Assimilation Plot. As the plans of the former two were mutually exclusive, they danced around each other, trying to advance their own goals faster. Whether or not Madara's claims towards his ultimate goals are to be believed is a debatable matter for some.
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Visionary Villain / int_329f9e9	comment	In Drifters, the Black King seeks a world without humans. Which he intends to create by annihilating them and teach the magical creatures how to live in society, giving them religion, knowledge, and the means to survive in a single, unified front.
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Visionary Villain / int_337631b6	comment	In PokÃ©mon Live!, Giovanni claims his plan will change the world forever, and his villain songs describe ruling the planet and controlling each day to the point that he'll make the sun shine on him alone.
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Visionary Villain / int_3aafea68	comment	William Schenk, the copycat killer from Spiral, uses the Jigsaw killers' traps but has his own agenda, seeking to purge the Metropolitan Police Department of all its corrupt officers.
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Visionary Villain / int_3d22c14b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Ribbons sees himself as a benevolent god who lead humanity into a utopia and prepare them for contact with aliens.
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Visionary Villain / int_3ddddb25	comment	Although his vision is not clearly revealed, Chase Young from Xiaolin Showdown fits this trope. His initial defection from the Xiaolin order was motivated by his belief that he could never realize his true potential with them, and his disdain for the use of their magical Shen Gong Wu weapons as a crutch. What exactly he plans to accomplish on his own is never stated outright, though the large scale and grandiosity of his schemes imply that he's after something much bigger than personal glory and power.
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Visionary Villain / int_40c7c051	comment	We see a particularly impressive example in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths: While the Crime Syndicate of the parallel dimension mostly consists of superpowered thugs, Owlman is another creature entirely. Upon finding out about the existence of the multiverse, he comes to the conclusion that free will is an illusion as every choice we make is countered in another dimension. He decides that this makes his and everyone else's existence pointless, and in a matter of days, puts together a plan that will let him annihilate all life in all parallel dimensions that exist. He considers this act the only meaningful one he can make as it is truly unique and can only be done once by one being in all the multiverse.
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Visionary Villain / int_432e5c6f	comment	Dio Brando and Enrico Pucci conclude that humanity's shortest way to happiness is "peace of mind". Thus they decide to just bring peace to humankind, but by making everything able to see their future and allegedly be able to accept their impending destinies. However, they've killed dozens to reach that and their goal isn't that far from "despair".
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Visionary Villain / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: In the episode "All Hells Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, E22), the Yellow-Eyed Demon is committed to bring about a new era. Lilith was also envisioned as one of these. She genuinely believes that she is acting in the better of her species (Demons), and is looking to save them from their (literally) hellish existence. She even willingly allows Sam to kill her, knowing that it will release Lucifer, whom she believes will as the ruler of the universe create Paradise. She even tells a Mook that they are going to "save the world". Unfortunately for her, Lucifer despises demons and seeks to destroy them and humans. Lucifer, the first Fallen Angel, seeks to destroy humanity with a Zombie Apocalypse, defeat his brother Michael, and turn the Earth into a new Eden, as he considered it "God's last great work". It's hinted that he also promised his followers something along the lines of Hell Invades Heaven, but the latter is just smoke and mirrors — Lucifer despises demons as well for essentially being corrupted human ghosts, and he intends to get rid of them too once he no longer needs them. Crowley, after becoming the new King of Hell, forms an alliance with Castiel to find Purgatory and gain access to all the souls therein. As he put it, it's "hell-adjacent" and prime real estate for expansion. However, Castiel eventually cuts him out of the deal, so Crowley teams up with Castiel's rival Raphael instead before both of them are Out-Gambitted by the former. Dick Roman, the leader of the Leviathans, took to building a shadowy empire after his kind was released from Purgatory, infiltrating human companies and governments so they could feed the general population with addictive food that would make them both fat and docile, as well as poisonous to any other monster species that could rival them. Basically, turn the Earth into a giant buffet for Dick and his kind to feed on. Subverted by Metatron. He manipulates Castiel and the Winchesters into banishing all other angels from Heaven and burning off their wings, but it turns out he didn't really have any real plan beyond getting revenge for his banishment. As the angels trapped on Earth descend into another civil war, he wavers between ruling the vacant Heaven, playing benefactor to Gadreel, toying with the Winchesters, or becoming a Dark Messiah to humanity, but none of it goes anywhere. After he's deposed and order is restored, even he admits that he was really a Big Bad Wannabe. Michael from the Apocalypse World has already run his own dimension into the ground, then seeks to become a Multiversal Conqueror to get payback on God. When he arrives in the Prime Universe, discovering that there are hardly any angels left, he starts to perform experiments on monsters to perfect them into an Ultimate Lifeform for himself to rule over.
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Visionary Villain / int_43c2e491	comment	Stargirl (2020): The Injustice Society spend Season 1 working towards completion of a years-long plan called Project New America, wherein a machine they build will enhance Brainwave's powers to the point he'll be able to mind control millions of people at once, at which point they'll be able to reshape American society to fit their views — namely, fixing global warming, switching to renewable energy, ending bigotry, enacting universal healthcare, etc. The heroes are surprised to find out about that last part, and even briefly wonder if they're on the wrong side... until they find out that roughly a quarter of the people affected by the machine will be killed in the process, which the ISA write off as acceptable losses.
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Visionary Villain / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion: Mehrunes Dagon is not this (being a being quite literally of ambition and destruction), but his chief cultist Mankar Camoran is something else, at the very least able to fake it to the very end, holding a vision of Nirn reclaimed and reforged as a Daedric paradise, returned after its theft by Lorkhan (he's almost certainly wrong on what Nirn is, and definitely wrong on what Mehrunes Dagon would do, but that does not keep it from being a vision for the world).
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Visionary Villain / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: Several, with Dr. Diabolik being the most prominent. In seeking his goal of human space migration, intelligence increase, and extended lifespan, he has killed over 17,000 people (most inadvertently as a side effect of his actions, but he is not at all bothered by simply killing opponents when needed). Crucible, The Social Darwinist who deliberately creates deadly disasters so that people are forced to Die or Fly. Mephisto, who works for a whole Ancient Conspiracy of Visionary Villains whose goal is to 'wake up' the human race out of apathy and ignorance.
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Visionary Villain / int_474c18c1	comment	In Infinite, we have Zachary Hale Comstock and his vision of creating his own heaven in the form of Columbia. And while he manages to do it, it's while he becomes the "Prophet" that turns into a godlike figure for the entire town. Plus, it's also while talking about the "white man's burden" and how oppression of blacks, Irish, and all other minorities is completely and totally justified. And that's nothing compared to what he wants to do to the "Sodom Below".
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Visionary Villain / int_4f46b380	comment	Sebastian Shaw from X-Men: First Class, who wants to start World War III so that mutants can take over the planet. Though in his case it's because he's just in it to Take Over the World, with little actual regard for allowing his kind to thrive (he merely uses it as his rhetoric to recruit others). As above, Magneto is much more suited to the trope, even going so far as to applaud Shaw's vision of a mutant-dominated world but in exactly those terms, without the desire to rule over them as their supreme leader.
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Visionary Villain / int_5286ec36	comment	Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit made a surprisingly epic speech about his grand Earth-shaking vision of public freeways, to Valiant's chagrin. His plan does require Toon Town to be wiped out first.
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Visionary Villain / int_53bd0aaf	comment	Brox in With Strings Attached. Grunnel is frankly dazzled by his partner's ability to see the big picture, which is a trait no other Baravadan possesses, apparently. According to him, Brox is the only person with enough vision to try to do something about the problem of having no more monsters to fight, rather than just sit around hoping for monsters to turn up, like every other skahs does.
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Visionary Villain / int_564115c7	comment	In the Everworld series, most of the villains are short-sighted hedonists who avert this trope, with the definite exception of Senna Wales, who has big plans for Everworld and very definite ideas of what she is going to do to it.
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Visionary Villain / int_56dce3c2	comment	In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the High Evolutionary believes he has a grand mission of creating a utopia with the perfect species, culture, and planet. Unfortunately, it's clear this is all to feed his god complex, and his obsession with perfection causes him to always declare his creations a failure before discarding or destroying them. Even his closest subordinates realize he's not as grand a visionary as they believed as his Villainous Breakdown progresses.
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Visionary Villain / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The Lord of the Rings: Sauron started out this way, determined to create peace and order on Middle-earth at any cost. Over time, though, he suffered Motive Decay and became a straight-up tyrant (The Dark Side Will Make You Forget is a recurring theme with Tolkien villains). Sauron's path to villainy is later repeated on a smaller scale with Saruman. The Silmarillion: Back at the very beginning, Morgoth wanted to create a world of his own imagination, and when he found that impossible, settled for wrecking up the world that was actually created.
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Visionary Villain / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Redcloak, The Dragon, is motivated by a vision given to him by his god, of goblins being able to be equal to the other races and building their own proper society and civilization instead of scratching out a living in places none of the other races would want to live. And if one potential consequence of the plan to accomplish this is the unmaking of reality as it currently exists, well, it's all for the greater anti-good, right? He gets called out by the heroes a few times for using his vision as an excuse to ignore his general Lack of Empathy for most of his people. Tarquin as well. He runs a conspiracy to control the three most powerful nations on the Western Continent in order to bring it to peace and himself to absolute power. Tarquin's Dragon, Malack, had a vision of his own, intending to use his immortality to continue operating Tarquin's empires following his passing and consecrating them to his god, Nergal. This would explain why Tarquin, who was thrilled that Malack would ensure his unified empire would endure for eternity, was furious with Nale for destroying Malack before this vision could be realized.
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Visionary Villain / int_58e3b9fc	comment	The Last Ship: Both Admiral Ruskov and Amy Granderson, the main antagonists of Season 1, want to use the cure for the Red Flu to control who lives and who dies, in order to guide what kind of world rises from the ashes. Sean Ramsey, the Big Bad of Season 2, is utterly convinced that the Flu is God's doing, and that the naturally immune have been chosen to inherit the Earth. To this end, he is organizing as many of the immune around the world under his control as possible and is killing anyone who opposes him or tries to create a cure. Season 3 Big Bad President Peng has the simple but grand plan to see China conquer all of post-plague Asia. The Big Bad of Season 4, Dr. Paul Vellek, wants to bring about world peace... by splicing the only remaining crops immune to the Red Rust blight with a narcotic which pacifies people by removing their ability to feel any kind of aggression, turning them into obedient sheep. Season 5 Big Bad Gustavo Barros is the Glorious Leader of a revolutionary movement aimed at uniting all of Latin America under a single banner (preferably by diplomacy, but by force if necessary) and using that combined might to usurp the United States' place as a world power.
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Visionary Villain / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: Though less fantastical than previous series examples, Ulfric Stormcloak, Rebel Leader of the Stormcloak Rebellion in the Civil War storyline, is no less visionary. One thing that both he and Imperial leadership can agree on is that a second Great War with the Thalmor-led Aldmeri Dominion is inevitable. Ulfric feels that a united Skyrim without the weak leadership and bureaucratic red tape of the Empire bogging them down stands the best chance. (And his point is further bolstered by the fact that the Redguards of Hammerfell, following their secession from the Empire, drove the Dominion out of their lands on their own.) Ulfric is also rather unfortunately a racist against non-Nords and pissed off quite a few Nords as well when he slew the young High King Torygg (who looked up to Ulfric) in a Duel to the Death for the throne. (An archaic but still legitimate Nordic tradition. However, Ulfric used the Thu'um in the battle, which was seen as cheating by Imperial supporters.) Whether or not Ulfric gets to see his vision of a united Skyrim come together depends on which side the Dragonborn chooses to support.
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Visionary Villain / int_5958b382	comment	Smoke: Merrill Fullerton wants to re-shape the public impact of Big Tobacco by using the human genome project to eliminate genes likely to develop lung cancer and wants to use Freddy to break into the human genome project to accomplish this goal.
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Visionary Villain / int_59da62aa	comment	Caesar from Fallout: New Vegas. He thinks that the post-apocalyptic earth is proof that democracy has failed, and sets out to form a new society based off Ancient Rome: a monotheistic dictatorship replete with slavery and crucifixion, where the only role of men (except for himself, of course) is to be expendable soldiers and the only role of women is to make more expendable soldiers (whether they want to or not). At the game's beginning, he's conquered Arizona, New Mexico, much of Utah and Colorado, and is poised to begin taking Nevada.
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Visionary Villain / int_5bb406f8	comment	The Expanse: Winston Duarte is a standard One World Order villain. He emphasizes to Singh that the people of Medina are not the enemy, but new subjects of the Laconian Empire. He is also aware that even if he succeeds, his plan will likely collapse after his death... so he uses the protomolecule to make himself into an immortal god-king. And that's peanuts compared to his revised vision for humanity in the finale, Leviathan Falls.
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Visionary Villain / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Soul Eater: Medusa Gordon's ultimate goal turns out to be to reawaken a centuries-old Eldritch Abomination that will eventually cause The End of the World as We Know It (likely killing off the vast majority of people on Earth), and her motivation for this is that she despises the monotonous and law-abiding ways of all human civilizations and desires to "evolve society via fear" into her ideal of a lawless, post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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Visionary Villain / int_5d4153a8	comment	In Mortal Engines, Valentine's absolutely right when he states Municipal Darwinism is unsustainable in the long term (something gone into in more detail in the books). He plans to use MEDUSA to blast London's way into Shan Guo to take their more plentiful resources instead of scavenging other cities.
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Visionary Villain / int_5d4da197	comment	Dr. Octavius in Spider-Man 2 has a dream of creating fusion-based electricity for "the good of mankind." Too bad his generator quickly goes out of control upon activation, and the advanced brain-controlled robotic arms he built to handle it malfunction in the disaster and become brain-controlling robotic arms, pushing him to build a second, even bigger generator at any cost.
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Visionary Villain / int_5db577ba	comment	In The Dark Knight, everyone thinks that The Joker is "garbage who kills for money", or just a homicidal maniac who kills for kicks. However, he is adamant he has grander ambitions â€” he is out to give the city "a better class of criminal" and sees himself as heralding a new age of supervillainy, as well as working to expose the citizens of Gotham as just as bad as he is. He wants to tear away the veneer of civilization and watch everyone abandon the moral order they claim to value so highly.
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Visionary Villain / int_5eff4a2f	comment	Chinatown: The hero attempts And Then What? against the villain, who reveals he does in fact have something even bigger to strive for.
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Visionary Villain / int_60b9f111	comment	Wynonna Earp has Bobo Del Rey, the leader of the revenants. He is driven and determined to find a way for his kind to escape their imprisonment inside the Ghost River Triangle, and nothing will deter him from it. He even considers the ongoing battle with the Earp Heir to be a sideshow that he doesn't have to pay attention to, as it's not as important to him.
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Visionary Villain / int_6138216a	comment	Strack in Darkman, who bribes politicians, allies himself with gangsters, and regularly has people murdered in pursuit of a dream of creating a technologically advanced industrial complex and revitalizing the economy.
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Visionary Villain / int_62c077b3	comment	In A Moth to a Flame, Marcy shows shades of this during her Motive Rant, as she sees conquering worlds (specifically Earth) as a way to end conflict and poverty.
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Visionary Villain / int_62f94c6	comment	The Dark Knight Trilogy: In The Dark Knight, everyone thinks that The Joker is "garbage who kills for money", or just a homicidal maniac who kills for kicks. However, he is adamant he has grander ambitions â€” he is out to give the city "a better class of criminal" and sees himself as heralding a new age of supervillainy, as well as working to expose the citizens of Gotham as just as bad as he is. He wants to tear away the veneer of civilization and watch everyone abandon the moral order they claim to value so highly. Both Ra's Al-Ghul and Bane and Talia Al-Ghul from the first and third movies qualify, as well. Ra's sees the human race as inherently decadent and corrupt, with the League of Shadows acting to destroy the most significant sources of these sins at their zenith, the current target being Gotham. Considering what we see of the police force and general apathy of the citizens, he's not entirely wrong. Bane wishes to complete his vision though more dramatically, including literally showing Gotham how awful it is as even its strides towards peace and order between movies seem to be built primarily on lies and cover-ups. [[spoiler:When it shows later that he's merely The Dragon for Talia, and both actually want revenge for what happened to Ra's in the first film, how strong their visions remain, and how much they're just used as an excuse to blow up Gotham is called into question.
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Visionary Villain / int_638718bd	comment	The Gifted (2017): As part of the series' Grey-and-Gray Morality, the major villains have a tendency to act based on motives beyond mere Fantastic Racism: Dr. Roderick Campbell is a biologist who fully acknowledges mutant-kind's evolutionary superiority over normal humans. Thus he is determined to give humans any edge they can get, even if that means experimenting on innocent mutants and turning them into lobotomized drone troops. Reeva Payge has suffered the worst of human prejudices her whole life. This has led her to believe that peaceful coexistence is impossible, and as such is determined to start a revolution and turn America into a homeland for mutants, where they can live free.
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Visionary Villain / int_678f32e0	comment	Big Hero 6: The Series: Obake's goal is revealed in Season 1's final episode to be to destroy San Fransokyo in order to remake it into a 'perfect city'.
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Visionary Villain / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Big Bad of Black Panther (2018) believes that Wakanda has a moral authority to the rest of the world to use its advancement to upend the plight of black people suffering under the authority of empires. Using his birthright as the son of a slain Wakandan prince to usurp the throne, he begins deploying Wakanda's Vibranium weapons to their agents in other countries in the hopes that they will make their way into the hands of the impoverished to rise up and fight for dominance (something his father was in the process of planning as well before his death at the hands of the then-current king). However, much of the film paints him as self-serving more than seeking justice for oppressed black people, looking only to exact his own retribution with no concern for what happens along the way, and is not shy about pointing out how his goals and methods are no different than those empires he wishes to upend. Thanos believes that the universe will inevitably fall to ruin and demise due to overpopulation if nothing is done. His crusade to slaughter half the population of every world he encounters, and the quest to acquire the Infinity Stones, is all part of his grand vision to "save" the universe from itself. His alternate version admits he wanted gratitude, and seeing that people hated what he had done, decides to remake the universe to meet his vision. In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the High Evolutionary believes he has a grand mission of creating a utopia with the perfect species, culture, and planet. Unfortunately, it's clear this is all to feed his god complex, and his obsession with perfection causes him to always declare his creations a failure before discarding or destroying them. Even his closest subordinates realize he's not as grand a visionary as they believed as his Villainous Breakdown progresses.
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Visionary Villain / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power has Deus, whose villainy is ambiguous at the moment, but he provides an excellent quote for it just before killing an African dictator who wouldn't heed his advice (read: be his pawn). A much later strip has him explain that Maxima's job isn't actually to stop super-powered bank robbers - but rather, to help maintain the status quo, and as such, he sees a conflict between the two as inevitable, albeit a fair ways off.
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Visionary Villain / int_6a8ce345	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Fire Lord Sozin wanted to "share the Fire Nation's prosperity with the rest of the world." This ended up involving the betrayal of his best friend, Avatar Roku; the invasion and colonization of the Earth Kingdom; the (near-)complete genocide of the Air Nomads; and raids against the Water Tribes. (In his deathbed, Sozin regrets what he's done.) This "Great March of Civilization" remains the Fire Nation's propaganda, but Sozin's grandson Ozai just wants to rule the world, even if it's nothing but ashes. In The Legend of Korra, the main villain of each season is an ideologue of some sort. While they have their respective points raised right, all of them are taking their ideology to the extreme, creating more problems instead of solving the problem outright, which leads Avatar Korra and her True Companions to clash against them while at the same time addressing the problem without the unnecessary bloodshed: In Book 1, Amon envisions a completely equal world, without benders, brought about by forcibly purging benders of their "impurity." Naturally, in order to ensure maximum fair-mindedness, this new world order will be governed by the Equalists, an organization led by Amon. It turns out that Amon is himself a very powerful waterbender... and still genuinely believes that bending needs to be eliminated from the world. His issues stem from his self-hate of believing that bending caused him so much misfortune in his life at the hands of his Abusive Dad that his strong sense of justice becomes so twisted that it enables him to become a hypocritical Knight Templar he presents himself as during his debut. In Book 2, Chief Unalaq of the Northern Water Tribe is more than willing to invade the Southern Water Tribe in order to restore spiritual harmony there. His true goal, however, is even more visionary; remove the divide between the spirit and human worlds... by fusing with the spirit of chaos and darkness to effectively rule the world as the Dark Avatar. The only problem is that Vaatu will destroy everything and anything anyway, humans and spirits alike. In Book 3, Zaheer is revealed to be the leader of the Red Lotus, a White Lotus splinter group seeking to bring balance and freedom to the world by toppling all governments and permanently ending the Avatar Cycle. While he raises several points about espousing his freedom, his unrealistic idealism leads him to be narrow-minded of the consequences after achieving his goals, like removing the tyrannical Earth Queen from power. Instead of celebrating its liberation, Earth Kingdom escalated into chaos and caused a new set of problems because of the sudden development; when Korra told him about the Nice Job Breaking It, Hero consequences of that particular action that gives rise to three years of chaos and the rise of the Book 4's villain, he realized that his judgment was lapsed. And destroying the Avatar Cycle? Despite their preparations, they grossly underestimated that the Avatar Spirit is not to be trifled with. In Book 4, Kuvira set out from Zaofu and later the United Republic of Nations (whose territory was once part of the Earth Kingdom) with the intent of reuniting the Earth Kingdom, and later decides that its obsolete monarchy should be replaced with a more forward-looking government... with her holding absolute power as its emperor. Her intentions end up basically like Sozin's — she wants to spread Zaofu's advanced technology to the rest of the kingdom and is genuinely concerned over her country, but she is not above removing people who aren't from the Earth Kingdom and putting them into concentration — ahem, "reeducation" camps, and her unwillingness to admit that she's wrong really costs her everything.
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Visionary Villain / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Overwatch has Talon, the main antagonistic force in the game that was responsible for the fall of Overwatch (the organization), as well as its return. It dabbles in nearly every terrorist act under the sun and its initial motivation? To evolve humanity through conflict, a motive that can be seen through some of its personnel. Akande Ogundimu, aka Doomfist III, is a Social Darwinist who was initially drawn to the organization due to him truly believing in its goals, which eventually led him to become one of its greatest leaders. He really means it too, as he's willing to kill both his predecessor and another Talon council leader due to them using Talon only for petty thefts and financial gain, whereas Doomfist has a much grander plan he intends to start. Moira Oâ€™Deorain, another leader in Talon's council, also carries this. She's a brilliant, though highly controversial geneticist who strives to develop genetic programs that could elevate all of humanity to their physical peak. This by itself isn't inherently villainous, but she unfortunately doesn't care for things like ethics, and will take part in Talon's activities if it means she can continue her work. Gabriel Reyes, aka Reaper, wanted to meaningfully change the world as a hero, and spent the better part of his life to do so, even co-founding Overwatch, only for none of it to stick due to the world practically enforcing the evils of suffering and corruption as good men are sidelined in the name of honor and discipline. Following Overwatch's collapse, a near-death experience, and becoming increasingly plagued by his borderline supernatural powers, he's given up trying to pretend with nominal antiheroism and wants to reset the system with a drastic global purge. Ramattra, while not directly part of Talon, is an associate with his own vision in mind. He cares deeply for his omnic brethren, seeing them as truly having "souls" with a place among the universe along with every other living being, but sees the attempts at peaceful coexistence with humanity following the Ommic Crisis as fruitless, convinced that humans are complete unwilling to accept omnics as equals and remaining hostile to a race that's only a generation old. He leads Null Sector — an extremist group reinstating the war against mankind — to ensure the long-term survival of omnickind by whatever means necessary.
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Visionary Villain / int_6c1d09b4	comment	The Institute in Fallout 4 are a mysterious cabal of scientists descended from the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They see the post-apocalyptic world as a chaotic and uncivilised mess that's beyond saving, so they plan to build a brand new society underground. Unfortunately, they're a lot of the reason why the Commonwealth is a mess, as they kidnap people and replace them with synth copies so they can steal resources from starving wastelanders, murder anyone who finds pre-war technology and doesn't hand it over, sabotage the rise of any attempt by wastelanders to become organized (as this would threaten the Insitute's power), and even created the Commonwealth's super mutants through their cruel experiments. They're all for advancing humanity for the greater good, just as long as it's their idea of the greater good â€” anything else, they'll otherwise happily smother in the cradle.
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Visionary Villain / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series: Magneto wants to create a world safe for mutants by any means necessary. Sebastian Shaw from X-Men: First Class, who wants to start World War III so that mutants can take over the planet. Though in his case it's because he's just in it to Take Over the World, with little actual regard for allowing his kind to thrive (he merely uses it as his rhetoric to recruit others). As above, Magneto is much more suited to the trope, even going so far as to applaud Shaw's vision of a mutant-dominated world but in exactly those terms, without the desire to rule over them as their supreme leader. In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Trask genuinely believes that uniting humanity against mutantkind is the gateway to creating world peace. Conversely, Magneto has a vision of a world where mutants lord over mankind, which, in his opinion, is the only way they can coexist with humans. In X-Men: Apocalypse, Apocalypse wants to destroy modern civilization in a global cataclysm which only the strongest will survive, after which he, as the strongest of all, will rule as a God-Emperor. Deconstructed, as his supposed over-idealistic ambition stems from a lack of maturity that comes with always getting what he wanted through power alone, and two of his followers (out of a mere total of four) turn on him for being needlessly cruel and ungrateful.
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Visionary Villain / int_6ea0c1f4	comment	Kars wanted nothing more than to help his race overcome their weakness to sunlight and "conquer creation", thereby becoming the most powerful creatures to have ever existed. However, as he needed to sacrifice a preposterous amount of living beings in order to do so, and his fellows weren't interested in running roughshod over the world in the first place, they eventually turned on him and he was forced to kill all of them in self-defense, making him and his three Co-Dragons the last of their kind.
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Visionary Villain / int_6f73a6e9	comment	Though most of the characters in Weak Hero are motivated by the Yeongdeungpo Union and its hierarchy, Big Bad Donald has his vision set much higher. It takes a long while for him to get involved with the plot because he's too busy with larger ventures like expanding his finances and business to care about a high-school turf war.
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Visionary Villain / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	In the Neopets universe, a character named Xandra wants to rule Neopia (the world of Neopets) and have it run by its inhabitants, because she thinks the world's Faeries aren't so reliable. To do this she went as far as to turn them to stone, accidentally unleashed hordes of shadowy creatures, turn most of the heroes to stone, and sent the Faeries' kingdom crashing to the ground.
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Visionary Villain / int_701f0ece	comment	Griffith from Berserk. A peasant boy turned mercenary who dreamt of having his own kingdom, at least in part due to his hatred of the current nobles and class-based social hierarchy. This one has since Gone Horribly Right, in that he achieved his dream, ultimately, but at the cost of sacrificing his closest friends to demons during the eclipse. Griffith's aâ€¦ complex example. Pre-Eclipse, he wants to overthrow the current class system, not so much because he thinks that such systems are fundamentally flawed, but because he thinks there's been a mistake in exactly who should be sitting on top. (Spoiler: he thinks it's him.) At best, you could say that he's in favor of upward mobility as opposed to true equality, at worst he's simply self-serving and narcissistic. Post-Eclipse, his rule seems largely benevolent so far (discounting what he had to do to get there), but it's unclear whether this is how he intends to run things long-term or if he's just cultivating a good public image until he can solidify his rule. So while he very well may be this trope, he might also simply be a power-mad Pragmatic Villain who's found that a reputation as a visionary best serves his purpose. He's playing a long game, and his ultimate goals are still largely unclear.
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Visionary Villain / int_717c5f25	comment	Gamaran: Jinsuke Kurogame's one of the greatest swordsmen in the world and created his own martial art school (the Muhou Ryu), composed of strong warriors from many different styles. His plans involve taking over Kyushu and turning it into an independent nation, and then use it to challenge the Bakufu, conquer the rest of Japan, and turn it into a country of warriors where strength and power are the most important things.
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Visionary Villain / int_74603f32	comment	Arcane: Silco dreams of uplifting and giving Zaun independence from Piltover, and he'll go to any length to get it.
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Visionary Villain / int_761a48d7	comment	Iron Fist (2017): When Davos becomes the Big Bad in Season 2, he enacts a plan to steal the Iron Fist from Danny. Afterwards, he goes on a campaign to "save" New York by wiping out all crime by force.
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Visionary Villain / int_76b8cb10	comment	Fallout: Through the franchise, the Enclave are the descendants of the corrupt Pre-War ruling elite of America, and seek to restore sanity and civilization to a World Gone Mad. Unfortunately for pretty much everyone, this involves committing omnicide on America, and enslaving the survivors of the few vaults that weren't tortured to death. The Master in the original Fallout. Believes that his Super Mutants are the natural evolution of mankind and the perfect solution to the irradiated, destroyed Wastelands of 22nd-century California. Caesar from Fallout: New Vegas. He thinks that the post-apocalyptic earth is proof that democracy has failed, and sets out to form a new society based off Ancient Rome: a monotheistic dictatorship replete with slavery and crucifixion, where the only role of men (except for himself, of course) is to be expendable soldiers and the only role of women is to make more expendable soldiers (whether they want to or not). At the game's beginning, he's conquered Arizona, New Mexico, much of Utah and Colorado, and is poised to begin taking Nevada. Benny's goal is revealed to have been to take control of the Securitron Army and overthrow House, allowing him to create an independent New Vegas free from the NCR and Legion. In the Wild Card Ending, the Courier takes up where he left off and proceeds to do just that. House as well, although his status as a true villain is rather questionable. House is an enlightened dictator — sorry, autocrat, who wants to guide humanity back to the glory of the Pre-War days, and be the economic superpower and financier behind it all. He has no intent to abuse or oppress people, and is more than happy to provide them comfortable lives so long as he's able to strictly control people through his Bread and Circuses and make a profit from them. He also engages in morally dubious acts to gain power, and is ruthless in crushing and eliminating anyone who stands in his way, but operates via a mindset of Pragmatic Villainy. His ultimate goal, however, is to use the combined NCR and Vegas economy to restart a spaceflight program that will allow humanity to begin anew on another planet. The Institute in Fallout 4 are a mysterious cabal of scientists descended from the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They see the post-apocalyptic world as a chaotic and uncivilised mess that's beyond saving, so they plan to build a brand new society underground. Unfortunately, they're a lot of the reason why the Commonwealth is a mess, as they kidnap people and replace them with synth copies so they can steal resources from starving wastelanders, murder anyone who finds pre-war technology and doesn't hand it over, sabotage the rise of any attempt by wastelanders to become organized (as this would threaten the Insitute's power), and even created the Commonwealth's super mutants through their cruel experiments. They're all for advancing humanity for the greater good, just as long as it's their idea of the greater good â€” anything else, they'll otherwise happily smother in the cradle.
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Visionary Villain / int_77582c7b	comment	In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Trask genuinely believes that uniting humanity against mutantkind is the gateway to creating world peace. Conversely, Magneto has a vision of a world where mutants lord over mankind, which, in his opinion, is the only way they can coexist with humans.
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Visionary Villain / int_77e22425	comment	The reason why Brain in Pinky and the Brain wants to Take Over the World is because he sees the current world leaders as incompetent and believes he can solve the problems they have tried and failed at. That is, Brain thinks he can help humanity (and mouse-kind) by providing them with what they want, and he intends to do so through diplomacy and political action albeit with generous portions of coercion and brainwashing.
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Visionary Villain / int_77f5af7f	comment	Weijuaru of Juathuur uses his position as king — a position the juathuur are never allowed to take — in order to give juathuur deserters a place to be free of Meidar and to find a way to travel to the other worlds the gods have made. When you find out how much of a Control Freak and Manipulative Bastard Meidar is, the "Villain" part gets dropped.
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Visionary Villain / int_791fca44	comment	BioShock has Andrew Ryan. Some of the other old holdouts down in Rapture count in their respective fields. Though Ryan takes the cake for building an underwater city for purely ideological reasons, going to rather ludicrous ends to preserve it, and fully planning to build it back up to its glory days again even after it's become a leaky, ruined mess. Sofia Lamb in the second game has opposite goals (the foundation of a collectivist society). In Infinite, we have Zachary Hale Comstock and his vision of creating his own heaven in the form of Columbia. And while he manages to do it, it's while he becomes the "Prophet" that turns into a godlike figure for the entire town. Plus, it's also while talking about the "white man's burden" and how oppression of blacks, Irish, and all other minorities is completely and totally justified. And that's nothing compared to what he wants to do to the "Sodom Below". Frank Fontaine had visions of taking over Rapture. After Rapture fell to ruin, he expanded his vision: he wanted to bring ADAM to the world market. After he discovered how much ADAM Ryan hoarded away, he changed his goal to devouring all the ADAM in Rapture to become a Physical God who would be worshipped as a superhuman adonis.
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Visionary Villain / int_792239e5	comment	Yggdrassil from Tales of Symphonia: Initially, he sought to end Fantastic Racism and the endless magitek wars by keeping the world in Medieval Stasis. Over time, his priorities shifted and he gained enough power and technology to become a god, building an artificial Heaven and creating a race of 'angels' by augmenting half-elves with exspheres powered by human souls. The only thing he was missing was a goddess to balance him out, so he bred the Chosen bloodline to create a vessel to revive his older sister as a goddess. Except she immediately calls him out for losing his mind and plunging the world into Hell for his own benefit, then willfully sacrifices herself to save the human girl used as her vessel, and Yggdrassil grabs the Villain Ball for dear life from there.
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Visionary Villain / int_792b8174	comment	Arthur Jensen from Network initially seems to just be another Corrupt Corporate Executive like all the others at UBS. Then he ends up alone in a room with Howard Beale and turns out to be just as fanatical and crazy as Beale, just in the opposite direction; he believes that capitalism is the driving force of all reality and that he is bringing the world towards a Utopia where everyone works for one giant corporation that fulfills every need and in which every man, woman, and child has a share.
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Visionary Villain / int_7988cb68	comment	The Illusive Man in Mass Effect. He dreams of a galaxy where humanity is safe and dominant. To accomplish this, all manner of mad science, assassinations, manipulations and implanting himself and nearly all of Cerberus with Reaper implants, sacrificing the whole organization for ultimately nothing are acceptable. He's sometimes described as being both the best and worst humanity has to offer at once. From the first game, Saren began as one (seeing the victory of the Reaper machines as inevitable, he was trying to prove that organics served some constructive purpose so that there would be a "logical" reason to spare some of them, and thus prevent complete galactic extinction) but the subtle yet continuous Mind Rape inflicted on him prevented him from realizing three things; 1. The Reapers were not actually invincible, and it was possible to have a chance against them. 2. The reason for the Reapers purging all advanced life (revealed in the third game) meant that no logical purpose was served by keeping him or any other organics alive. 3. He was completely indoctrinated, so it wasn't his vision he was implementing. By the time of the final confrontation, he's simply become Brainwashed and Crazy.
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Visionary Villain / int_79ffa674	comment	Azure Striker Gunvolt Series: Both of the Big Bads of 1 and 2 want the power of Joule's Septima, the Muse, in order to achieve what they believe is best for the world. Nova of Sumeragi wishes to use her power to police all the Adepts in the world to prevent them from ever rising up against humanity and destroying the planet, which nearly happened in the backstory, and ensure permanent peace and justice. Zonda of Eden wants to use her power to amplify the powers of Adepts worldwide so they can annihilate humanity for all the crimes and oppression they've heaped on their kind, creating an Adept-only utopia. ZedÎ© of ATEMS in 3 wants to build a brighter future for the whole world, humans and Adepts, and rule over it as a benevolent dictator while also stopping a world-destroying threat that Sumeragi has been hiding all knowledge of and sealed away in the naive hope it doesn't turn out to be a ticking time bomb. His methods involved armed aggression and terrorism plus hijacking that very world-destroying threat (the baby Primal Dragon Moebius) and subliminally influencing its Winds of Destiny, Change! powers to nudge the world towards his ideal. Unlike the previous villains, he has a Heelâ€“Face Turn after being beaten and chooses to return to his country peacefully to help fight the surge of Adepts turned Primal Dragons world-wide caused by Moebius's awakening.
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Visionary Villain / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Ra's Al-Ghul is both Batman's most formidable enemy and the most visionary one. He sees humanity as a blight on Earth, and that the population needs to be culled for the good of the planet. Imagine someone taking David Attenborough's "controlling the population to allow the survival of the environment" quote and taking it to its extreme conclusion. He sees no one else but Batman as worthy enough to continue his legacy, though at the same time, he refuses to die and will do anything to avoid it.
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Visionary Villain / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters: The eco-terrorists' Mad Scientist Accomplice Emma Russell is helping them to forcibly awaken and unleash all the dormant Titans around the world on humanity on-by-one, because the Accomplice believes she can use the ORCA device to tame the Titans into coexisting with what humans survive the havoc of their awakenings and replenishing the world's ecosystems from humanity's abuse of the environment. She further justifies her plan because she's antsy about the government's own intentions to try exterminating all the Titans while they're asleep, and because she's disillusioned with Monarch's habit of sitting on their asses and not doing anything proactive or preemptive, insisting that her plan is the only rational choice left. Unfortunately for the Accomplice, she massively overestimates herself — she awakens all the Titans without caring to discriminate between the benevolent ones and the truly harmful ones, and in the process she ends up awakening Monster Zero or Ghidorah: a hostile and genuinely malevolent alien who acts like a virus to Earth's natural order instead of replenishing it, the ORCA has no effect on Ghidorah except to piss him off even further, and he has designs on taking Godzilla's kingship over the other monsters so that he can annihilate and reshape the world with global destruction. This horrifies the Accomplice so much that she defects back to the heroes' side at the climax.
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Visionary Villain / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash (2014): Clifford DeVoe aka the Thinker, the Big Bad of Season 4, spends the whole season working towards a plan he calls "the Enlightenment". It's only near the end of the season that we find out what this is — that despite his own use of advanced technology, he's an anti-technology zealot who believes that mankind's obsession with rapid technological advancement is ruining the world. Thus, he intends on using weaponized dark matter to remove the intelligence of everyone on the planet, reducing humanity to a simplified mental state, which he can then lead.
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Visionary Villain / int_7dcc80c6	comment	Chrono Crusade: Aion's manga version presents him as a Well-Intentioned Extremist who plans to change the corrupt systems of the world. The anime version is much more of a Card-Carrying Villain, but he still has a very clear goal in mind (switching Heaven and Hell) and carefully plans his actions to reach it.
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Visionary Villain / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and its sequel Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny explore both the great and terrible sides of this archetype. In the first, Rau Le Creuset foresees how mankind's relentless desire for progress at any cost and constant dehumanization of itself is creating a world of endless, escalating war with no chance of escape. His solution to end this suffering is by convincing both sides of the human race to trigger a WMD fueled Armageddon and wipe everyone out to end the pain. In the second, Gilbert Durandal comes to a similar conclusion, but is instead convinced he can save us all by enacting a policy of genetic determinism where people wouldn't have to reach beyond their station and battle for power. The catch? This would require absolute control of the planet, through means of propaganda, assassinations, and ultimately a Wave-Motion Gun to use on any dissenters.
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Visionary Villain / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: Sauron started out this way, determined to create peace and order on Middle-earth at any cost. Over time, though, he suffered Motive Decay and became a straight-up tyrant (The Dark Side Will Make You Forget is a recurring theme with Tolkien villains). Sauron's path to villainy is later repeated on a smaller scale with Saruman.
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Visionary Villain / int_80d4924d	comment	On Heroes Reborn (2015), Big Bad Erica Kravid has foreseen the pending destruction of the Earth by a massive solar flare and is taking steps to ensure human survival by teleporting a select few into the distant future to rebuild the planet. Oh, and she's only planning on saving humans; any Evos taken along are only being taken so that their powers can be harvested and controlled artificially in order to aid in the rebuilding process.
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Visionary Villain / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Transformers: Prime: Aligned Continuity Megatron. Though he originally wanted to bring an end to the caste system that kept Cybertron infested with political corruption and social inequality, Motive Decay eventually set in and Megatron's new goal became rebuilding Cybertron in his own image where the strong ruled without question.
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Visionary Villain / int_85b855e2	comment	The Thrawn Trilogy: Grand Admiral Thrawn. All right, in his first-written appearance, what he wanted to do was crush the Rebellion and rebuild the Empire in a slightly less evil format than it previously was, but later-written works and a bit of Arc Welding say that he knew that the Vong were coming. By waging war against the Rebel Alliance, he could either crush them and have time to set up the Empire to rebuff the extragalactic invaders, or he'd force them to toughen up to defeat him. Either way, the victors would be far, far less inclined to rely on superweapons or lone heroes (which Thrawn regarded as excessively impractical and romantic, respectively), and much more likely to respond in a truly military manner when the galaxy was threatened again. Covering his bases, he had a clone set up in a secret base of his, just in case. Luke and Mara accidentally killed that clone while fighting off the base's defenses, but in Survivor's Quest they find evidence that very strongly hints that There Is Another, and this time he's not their enemy. Given that there has never been a canonical life expectancy for Chiss, people will still be expecting Thrawn to show up long into the future.
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Visionary Villain / int_86814e7d	comment	Interestingly, a bit character from the X continuity, Rin, is a more straightforward example. By the time of X-2, the Al Bhed are busily re-introducing robotics and machinery into society. Rin decides that the machines can work in unison better than a human workforce can, but his faulty programming causes them to run amok. (Note that this only happens in his scenario; there are four possible culprits, and only two of them are truly malevolent.) When confronted, he gloats that he intends to continue covering up accidents and won't rest until Spira is a fully-mechanized society — presumably with himself at the helm. This is a little chilling since the character had carefully hidden his ambition up to this point. When Paine called him a jackass for it, he chuckled and claimed that "jackasses are the ones who change the world".
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Visionary Villain / int_86f6da00	comment	M. Bison in Street Fighter wants to create a race of genetically-engineered Super Soldiers to wipe out all traces of race, nation, and creed so that the whole world can live in peace under his rule.
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Visionary Villain / int_87e00d8e	comment	Whereas in canon he was the poster boy for Hidden Agenda Villain, Jewel of Darkness turns Slade into one of these. He firmly believes that the mounting tensions between the normal governments and the superpowered factions (good and evil) will lead to World War III and that the only true victors will be those who have gathered enough influence and reputation to become leaders in the devastated world afterwards.
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Visionary Villain / int_8aaeda7e	comment	MonsterVerse: Godzilla: King of the Monsters: The eco-terrorists' Mad Scientist Accomplice Emma Russell is helping them to forcibly awaken and unleash all the dormant Titans around the world on humanity on-by-one, because the Accomplice believes she can use the ORCA device to tame the Titans into coexisting with what humans survive the havoc of their awakenings and replenishing the world's ecosystems from humanity's abuse of the environment. She further justifies her plan because she's antsy about the government's own intentions to try exterminating all the Titans while they're asleep, and because she's disillusioned with Monarch's habit of sitting on their asses and not doing anything proactive or preemptive, insisting that her plan is the only rational choice left. Unfortunately for the Accomplice, she massively overestimates herself — she awakens all the Titans without caring to discriminate between the benevolent ones and the truly harmful ones, and in the process she ends up awakening Monster Zero or Ghidorah: a hostile and genuinely malevolent alien who acts like a virus to Earth's natural order instead of replenishing it, the ORCA has no effect on Ghidorah except to piss him off even further, and he has designs on taking Godzilla's kingship over the other monsters so that he can annihilate and reshape the world with global destruction. This horrifies the Accomplice so much that she defects back to the heroes' side at the climax. Godzilla vs. Kong: Apex Cybernetics CEO Walter Simmons rationalizes his plan to frame Godzilla for destroying an entire city and then having his Mechagodzilla kill him by claiming that he's returning control of the planet to humanity after the Titans' emergence in the previous movies proved that humanity isn't the dominant species. In truth, he's just an ambitious, self-serving and supremely arrogant Glory Hound who wants to prove that he's better than Godzilla via toppling him and ruling the world himself.
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Visionary Villain / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Quite common, dating back to Gihren Zabi in the original Mobile Suit Gundam. People like Anavel Gato, Char Aznable, Treize Khushrenada, and others fit this trope perfectly. Anavel Gato chews out Kou for not bothering to understand Zeon's objectives and mindlessly serving the Federation. Char has a very well-organized and detailed ideology he inherited from his father and resents Amuro Ray for not being similar ("Unlike you, I'm more than just a pilot!"). Treize, especially, has a vision of the glories and terrors of war and wishes to drive home to humanity the true horrors of warâ€¦ but due to his suicide-through-enemy-fire, he escaped responsibility for his actions. Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Ribbons sees himself as a benevolent god who lead humanity into a utopia and prepare them for contact with aliens. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and its sequel Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny explore both the great and terrible sides of this archetype. In the first, Rau Le Creuset foresees how mankind's relentless desire for progress at any cost and constant dehumanization of itself is creating a world of endless, escalating war with no chance of escape. His solution to end this suffering is by convincing both sides of the human race to trigger a WMD fueled Armageddon and wipe everyone out to end the pain. In the second, Gilbert Durandal comes to a similar conclusion, but is instead convinced he can save us all by enacting a policy of genetic determinism where people wouldn't have to reach beyond their station and battle for power. The catch? This would require absolute control of the planet, through means of propaganda, assassinations, and ultimately a Wave-Motion Gun to use on any dissenters. Chairman Durandal from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny is a tragic case. He firmly believes that mankind is doomed to destroy itself. His plan to mitigate this is a utopia with a rigid, genetically-determined social structure to obviate the need for war. Part of his motivation is anger at his plans being rejected, as shown by his willingness to sabotage less-radical peacemaking efforts.
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Visionary Villain / int_8ad6e76f	comment	In Carpe Jugulum, Count Magpyr aims to change the rules of the vampire narrative by learning to overcome the weaknesses and avoid the pitfalls that result in the vampires being defeated over and over again. Although his vision is of a world where vampires hold greater power, the Old Count later points out that he always gave the humans a way to (temporarily) beat him so that they wouldn't devise their own, more permanent methods.
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Visionary Villain / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note has Light Yagami, an example of a Visionary Villain Protagonist. He uses the titular artefact to perform vigilante justice and dreams of ruling over a perfect world free of crime and corruption.
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Visionary Villain / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Lex Luthor is thoroughly convinced that he has humanity's best interests in mind in everything he does and that humanity's reliance on Superman shackles them. However, he devotes his time to trying to destroy Superman even though, as the Man of Steel himself notes, if Lex wanted to, he could've saved the world years ago. Some versions of him are more visionary than others.
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Visionary Villain / int_909b004d	comment	The Transformers (IDW): Megatron started out as a working-class revolutionary seeking to end the unjust segregation of Cybertronian society and topple the tyrannical government. Ironically for someone who kicked off a civil war that would last millions of years, he actually got his start writing seditious papers and advocating peaceful reform. Then Whirl gave him a hands-on demonstration on the effective use of violence.
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Visionary Villain / int_90e2f673	comment	The Clans in BattleTech count, they see themselves as the chosen descendants of Kerensky, and believe it's their right and destiny to conquer the Inner Sphere and rebuild the Star League. But each of the Clans have conflicting views and they don't always agree on anything, and their rule is simply a caste-based military dictatorship that benefits the warrior caste only, and their culture mostly favors Trueborns and treat Freebirths like dirt.
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Visionary Villain / int_92dd35df	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Joseph Stalin believes that it is his sacred mission to make the Soviet Union stretch the entire European continent, launching a war that lasts years and leaves tens of millions dead. He was inspired after he witnessed himself as Europe's sole ruler in a dream.
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Visionary Villain / int_93b9b77c	comment	Jacques Moreau from the Laurentia story arc of Nexus Clash was a ruthless mercenary who started a bloody Succession Crisis for the legacy of his father Lucien, which indirectly caused the death of his half-sister and threw the city into a period of chaos. However, Jacques was also a believer in many revolutionary ideas uncommon for his time period (such as class equality, widespread education, and environmental protection) and some of his heirs proved to be much better people who helped shape Laurentia into a Shining City.
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Visionary Villain / int_94377b17	comment	The very patriotic Funny Valentine wants to shake up the hierarchy of the Christian world by gathering the pieces of Jesus Christ's mummified corpse. Not only would this relic give the United States supreme moral authority for most of the world, the relic's own powers would make it so the country would be forever blessed, anything that could be "bad" being repelled into someone else in the world. Likewise, Valentine deems it necessary to coerce and assassinate several people, as individual interests couldn't be compared to that of a whole country.
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Visionary Villain / int_969fb090	comment	Blindspot: Shepherd, the Greater-Scope Villain of the first season and Big Bad of the second, believes that America has become hopelessly corrupt, and has a plan to save it by burning everything down and starting over. The end of Season 2 reveals that the plan to do this is to nuke DC via Kill Sat, wiping out the federal government and allowing the people she's handpicked and guided into position as emergency successors to take over, building a purer government. Hank Crawford, Shepherd's main financial backer and one of the main antagonists of Season 3, has a vision of building the biggest army in history, millions strong, with all its members trained to have no loyalty to any nation and thus able to create a Police State that would be a utopia. Everything he's shown to do over the course of Season 3 is to gain the monetary resources to fund this.
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Visionary Villain / int_98c55b59	comment	Kerghan in Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura might be the most well-intentioned and extreme extremist of all. He's traveled beyond the veil of death and knows it as plain fact that the dead eventually do reach a state of perfect tranquility in death. Since he's all too aware of how much the living and the undead suffer, his grand scheme is to permanently sever the mortal ties of every soul in existence. He's quite insane, but there's nothing in the story that indicates that things wouldn't work out exactly as he'd foreseen if given the chance. A previously dead companion even confirms that the afterlife is indeed as the villain describes. In the end, you have the option of joining him and helping him to kill every living thing in existence. Whether or not this is the bad ending isn't quite made clear.
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Visionary Villain / int_9989595b	comment	Nerissa in the animated series and comic W.I.T.C.H., who betrayed her teammates and later attempted to conquer the universe, claiming to seek an end to all war and conflict.
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Visionary Villain / int_998cbda3	comment	Wilson Fisk of Daredevil (2015) wants to transform New York City into the greatest city in the world. The murder, drugs, gangs, and utter destruction of anyone in his way, he considers necessary evils, in order to gain the power he needs to effect his changes.
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Visionary Villain / int_999855bb	comment	In Might and Magic Heroes VI: Shades of Darkness, Sandro's ambitions go far beyond his previous incarnations' desire to conquer the world (or the continent, at least. Old-verse Sandro was a pragmatic fellow). He wants to use the Power of the Void to kill the dragon gods since he believes the world they created is a prison. Sandro wishes to create new worlds and be free of destiny forever.
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Visionary Villain / int_9a7088bc	comment	Khan Noonien Singh of Star Trek: The Original Series once was "the best of tyrants", ruling a quarter of the human population, and in the AU story "Seeds of Dissent" (part of the Star Trek: Myriad Universes) presides over the genetic transformation of humanity into a Superior Species after his successful conquest of Earth. In the episode "Space Seed," upon his defeat, he gladly accepts the offer to tame a new world. Subverted when he comes back in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, as he is preoccupied only with revenge against Kirk, as his wife died there, even though his henchman tries to convince him that this trope would be much more worthwhile.
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Visionary Villain / int_9a8bf274	comment	Command & Conquer: Kane is probably most famous. Played with in that we never find out exactly what his vision (as separate from the visions he presents to his followers) is. Clearly, he has a plan, but it seems to result in wildly different goals between one game and another (exactly what is the connection between Divination and Ascension?). In the end, his goal was a pretty humble one: to get the heck off of the third rock from the sun and return home.
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Visionary Villain / int_9cc1e9b	comment	In Flipside, the Thin Man insists that everything he does is to uncover the secrets of magic, specifically his theory that it's actually generated by nanomachines of unknown origin, and to share them with the world. Discussed when Maytag points out to him that for someone who claims to be a champion of truth, he relies heavily on obfuscation, Laser-Guided Amnesia, and unethical experimentation, and has never actually fulfilled one of his promises.
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Visionary Villain / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind: Dagoth Ur's vision is warped (he... doesn't seem entirely aware what his Divine Disease does to the minds of those he infects) and cracked (he seems to maintain several visions that aren't entirely compatible), but that is only logical given he is a Mad God, and he is still able to present overthrowing the Tribunal, throwing out Outlanders from Morrowind, and building a paradisiacal new Resdayn before spreading divinity across Tamriel lead by the New God Anumidium in a pleasant, charming, and reasonably coherent manner. Oblivion: Mehrunes Dagon is not this (being a being quite literally of ambition and destruction), but his chief cultist Mankar Camoran is something else, at the very least able to fake it to the very end, holding a vision of Nirn reclaimed and reforged as a Daedric paradise, returned after its theft by Lorkhan (he's almost certainly wrong on what Nirn is, and definitely wrong on what Mehrunes Dagon would do, but that does not keep it from being a vision for the world). Skyrim: Though less fantastical than previous series examples, Ulfric Stormcloak, Rebel Leader of the Stormcloak Rebellion in the Civil War storyline, is no less visionary. One thing that both he and Imperial leadership can agree on is that a second Great War with the Thalmor-led Aldmeri Dominion is inevitable. Ulfric feels that a united Skyrim without the weak leadership and bureaucratic red tape of the Empire bogging them down stands the best chance. (And his point is further bolstered by the fact that the Redguards of Hammerfell, following their secession from the Empire, drove the Dominion out of their lands on their own.) Ulfric is also rather unfortunately a racist against non-Nords and pissed off quite a few Nords as well when he slew the young High King Torygg (who looked up to Ulfric) in a Duel to the Death for the throne. (An archaic but still legitimate Nordic tradition. However, Ulfric used the Thu'um in the battle, which was seen as cheating by Imperial supporters.) Whether or not Ulfric gets to see his vision of a united Skyrim come together depends on which side the Dragonborn chooses to support.
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Visionary Villain / int_9f867f17	comment	Aquarius from The Zodiac Series is dedicated to a better future for humanity. Unfortunately, his plans for doing so involve flying into the sun, which will shut it off and cause The End of the World as We Know It.
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Visionary Villain / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Many PokÃ©mon villains are like this. In PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire, Archie of Team Aqua and Maxie of Team Magma seek to expand the oceans and landmass respectively, believing this will be a good thing for the world; the remakes elaborate on their motivations, explaining that Team Magma's goal is to make room for the further advancement of humankind, while Aqua's is to reclaim the aquatic habitats lost to human industrialization for the sake of PokÃ©mon. Cyrus from PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl wants to destroy the world and then re-create it as a world with no emotion, knowledge, or willpower, claiming that these things make up "spirit" only lead to pain and conflict. PokÃ©mon Black and White have N, who wishes to free all PokÃ©mon and create a world where they won't be enslaved; much of Team Plasma shares that vision with him. PokÃ©mon X and Y's Lysandre intends to solve global overpopulation and create a "beautiful world" by wiping most of humanity off the map. Finally, PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield has Chairman Rose, who wishes to stave off Galar's depleting energy that will run out in a thousand years by using Eternatus to provide the Galar region with infinite energy.
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Visionary Villain / int_a022b74f	comment	Cooking With Wild Game has Zattsu Suun, who cared enough about the future of Forest's Edge to murder its oppressors over a decades-long Evil Plan, yet not enough to stop his subordinates from raping its people. (He is explicitly said to be insane.)
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Visionary Villain / int_a4a6b86a	comment	In Code Geass, both the motivation of Emperor Charles and Marianne's Assimilation Plot and, if you consider him a villain, also the motivation of Lelouch Lamperouge.
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Visionary Villain / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Seymour in Final Fantasy X is a subversion. He thinks he's this because he wants to end the cycle of life and death on Spira. However, the whole party calls bullshit on it because he very clearly enjoys being a horrible bastard and his method of ending said cycle involves killing everyone alive. He doesn't have much of a counter-argument. Interestingly, a bit character from the X continuity, Rin, is a more straightforward example. By the time of X-2, the Al Bhed are busily re-introducing robotics and machinery into society. Rin decides that the machines can work in unison better than a human workforce can, but his faulty programming causes them to run amok. (Note that this only happens in his scenario; there are four possible culprits, and only two of them are truly malevolent.) When confronted, he gloats that he intends to continue covering up accidents and won't rest until Spira is a fully-mechanized society — presumably with himself at the helm. This is a little chilling since the character had carefully hidden his ambition up to this point. When Paine called him a jackass for it, he chuckled and claimed that "jackasses are the ones who change the world".
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Visionary Villain / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: According to Adar, Sauron has spent centuries trying to tap the Power of the Seen and the Unseen world by using Orcs as his lab-rats, with the goal of healing, cough "control" cough, Middle-Earth of the destruction he and Morgoth provoked. When he asks Galadriel to join forces with him in the finale of Season One, he does nothing but confirm Adar's words about his true goals to reshape Middle-Earth in his image.
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Visionary Villain / int_a8a64abf	comment	In the first Geneforge, Trajkov says he is motivated by a desire to emancipate creations such as the Serviles from Shaper slavery and abuse. If you help him use the Geneforge and conquer the world, he does exactly that.
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Visionary Villain / int_a9f1f7c8	comment	Minion Masters: The Lich Queen Morellia seeks to save the world from a greater evil by uniting all factions under herâ€¦ in her undead army.
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Visionary Villain / int_af42a07f	comment	The Operative from Serenity is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to create a utopia free from sin, for which he commits many atrocities. Interestingly, he knows that there's no place for him in that world.
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Visionary Villain / int_affd17dc	comment	Hattori from Nabari no Ou is portrayed as a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to rewrite history to fix the corrupt world. Thanks to his charisma, about half of the good guys are on his side at one point.
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Visionary Villain / int_b0028436	comment	Some of the main villains from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure have ambitious far-reaching goals, using their powers or artifacts in order to bring about a new world order, and care not about how much blood they must spill to achieve that end. Kars wanted nothing more than to help his race overcome their weakness to sunlight and "conquer creation", thereby becoming the most powerful creatures to have ever existed. However, as he needed to sacrifice a preposterous amount of living beings in order to do so, and his fellows weren't interested in running roughshod over the world in the first place, they eventually turned on him and he was forced to kill all of them in self-defense, making him and his three Co-Dragons the last of their kind. Dio Brando and Enrico Pucci conclude that humanity's shortest way to happiness is "peace of mind". Thus they decide to just bring peace to humankind, but by making everything able to see their future and allegedly be able to accept their impending destinies. However, they've killed dozens to reach that and their goal isn't that far from "despair". The very patriotic Funny Valentine wants to shake up the hierarchy of the Christian world by gathering the pieces of Jesus Christ's mummified corpse. Not only would this relic give the United States supreme moral authority for most of the world, the relic's own powers would make it so the country would be forever blessed, anything that could be "bad" being repelled into someone else in the world. Likewise, Valentine deems it necessary to coerce and assassinate several people, as individual interests couldn't be compared to that of a whole country.
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Visionary Villain / int_b11fb1b6	comment	A Master of Djinn: It turns out Abigail's motive in murdering her father and the rest with the ring wasn't anything petty like greed or revenge. No, she wants to ultimately restore the falling British Empire using it, perhaps even becoming queen.
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Visionary Villain / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Tywin's speech to Jaime and his discussions with his cupbearer Arya reveals that he aspires to the legacy of Aegon the Conqueror and wants to create with gold and sheer will what Aegon had done with three dragons: a dynasty of Lannister hegemony that would rival and even surpass the Targaryens. Euron Greyjoy seeks to raise the largest fleet in the world and align with Daenerys Targaryen to rule the Seven Kingdoms. When this fails decisively, he changes queens for Cersei. By the final episode, Daenerys performs a Faceâ€“Heel Turn and has leveled King's Landing out of spite for being rejected by the commonfolk. However, she's not content with merely ruling the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, as she boasts that she will Take Over the World for the Targaryen dynasty.
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Visionary Villain / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind: Dagoth Ur's vision is warped (he... doesn't seem entirely aware what his Divine Disease does to the minds of those he infects) and cracked (he seems to maintain several visions that aren't entirely compatible), but that is only logical given he is a Mad God, and he is still able to present overthrowing the Tribunal, throwing out Outlanders from Morrowind, and building a paradisiacal new Resdayn before spreading divinity across Tamriel lead by the New God Anumidium in a pleasant, charming, and reasonably coherent manner.
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Visionary Villain / int_b6886bfd	comment	Star Trek Into Darkness gives us two examples: John Harrison/Khan's speech about how the Augments were created to lead others to peace in a world at war. Admiral Marcus, who wanted to create a more militarized Starfleet in preparation for what he believed to be a looming war against the Klingons.
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Visionary Villain / int_b80c3b	comment	Dr. Horrible from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog had a vague plan to improve the world by taking it over. He even claimed "Murder is beneath me." Though his plan is so incredibly ill-defined it's doubtful he really qualifies for this trope. He came up with "anarchy...that I run!" at one point.
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Visionary Villain / int_ba56500d	comment	Timeless: The founder and namesake of Rittenhouse, David Rittenhouse, believed that the common people have no ability to rule themselves efficiently and that democracy is therefore too chaotic, but also that monarchy is too selfish in nature to serve as a proper alternative. Therefore, in the view of himself and his followers, the only way to truly rule is to use democracy as a facade to placate the masses, while a select few wield power from the shadows. Nicholas Keynes, a Rittenhouse member from the early 1900s and Lucy's great-grandfather. He foresaw the creation of time travel and wrote a manifesto on how it could be used to rewrite history to create a "perfect" world with Rittenhouse in ultimate control. At the start of Season 2, he's brought to the present in order to help implement the plan.
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Visionary Villain / int_babeae6a	comment	Godzilla vs. Kong: Apex Cybernetics CEO Walter Simmons rationalizes his plan to frame Godzilla for destroying an entire city and then having his Mechagodzilla kill him by claiming that he's returning control of the planet to humanity after the Titans' emergence in the previous movies proved that humanity isn't the dominant species. In truth, he's just an ambitious, self-serving and supremely arrogant Glory Hound who wants to prove that he's better than Godzilla via toppling him and ruling the world himself.
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Visionary Villain / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Some leaders are fighting for a strengthened humanity able to endure the grim darkness of the far futureâ€¦ united under the eight-pointed star of Chaos. Others, however, just want something, and the difference is often academic if they're offering you up to the Dark Gods or raining siege shells on your city. Even the Emperor would have been the visionary villain in almost any other setting, as he waged a galactic and xenocidal war while stamping out freedom of religion in hopes of bringing about a peaceful era afterwards (most pronounced in the story, "The Last Church", where he kills an innocent priest to remove the last remnant of religion on Earth because he believes religion is incompatible with his vision for humanity's greater future). He's the designated Big Good in this setting because the visionary villains he opposed literally sacrifice babies to summon demons and craft temples out of (sometimes still living) human flesh, etc. However, Horus Heresy makes it pretty clear that, whatever he might have claimed about saving humanity from Chaos, what mattered to the Emperor in the end was that humanity survive on his terms and in the way he wanted, as a number of more technologically advanced, more Chaos-resistant human societies were wiped out by the nascent Imperium under the Emperor's orders.
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Visionary Villain / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Drowtales: Zig-zagged with Snadhya'rune Vel'Sharen, who was deeply resentful of her mother for treating her like a mutant and became a psychopath bent on getting revenge through one-upping her mother, but also dreamed of doing so through the creation of an all-consuming empire, where demon-drow hybrid immortals would create an eternally expanding dystopia dedicated to fulfilling her every whim.
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Visionary Villain / int_bfe2dc5a	comment	Scooby Apocalypse: The nanites created by Velma for Project Elysium were meant to eliminate humanity's negative emotions and drives, in order to bring about world peace. Instead, the project's leaders, known as The Four, secretly altered the nanites to instead remove The Evils of Free Will so that they could assume leadership of the world once everyone else was reduced to mindless sheep. Of course, their alterations caused everything to go horribly wrong, instead turning infected people into literal monsters. The Nanite King, an eventual embodiment of the nanites' evolving Hive Mind, comes to the conclusion that humanity is hopelessly flawed, and as such decides to use the monsters to wipe out what surviving enclaves of humans there still are. Then it intends to kill all the monsters too, leaving only basic plant and animal life to inherit the Earth.
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Visionary Villain / int_c0540e21	comment	The Powers of Harmony: Both Cetus and Eclipse have both convinced themselves that their plans for Eternal Night are what's best for the world. The only thing they disagree on is who should be in charge.
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Visionary Villain / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: Most of Dredd's foes are motivated by either lust for power or mere sadism, but Judge Death believes that the supremacy of law can only be achieved by cutting off all crime at the root source: the genesis of life itself. With three equally insane followers, he laid waste to his world and now seeks to achieve the same goal across the entire multiverse.
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Visionary Villain / int_c2463c55	comment	Seymour in Final Fantasy X is a subversion. He thinks he's this because he wants to end the cycle of life and death on Spira. However, the whole party calls bullshit on it because he very clearly enjoys being a horrible bastard and his method of ending said cycle involves killing everyone alive. He doesn't have much of a counter-argument.
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Visionary Villain / int_c832776	comment	Chairman Durandal from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny is a tragic case. He firmly believes that mankind is doomed to destroy itself. His plan to mitigate this is a utopia with a rigid, genetically-determined social structure to obviate the need for war. Part of his motivation is anger at his plans being rejected, as shown by his willingness to sabotage less-radical peacemaking efforts.
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Visionary Villain / int_ccbaad5d	comment	Digimon Fusion: Lord Bagra prides himself on being this. In his case, his ultimate goal is to fuse the Digital World and the human world into one, allowing him to recreate both humans and Digimon into what he believes to be perfect beings. In a case of Evil Virtues, he believes that the true sign of a ruler is to have a vision for the world they wish to create. Before he destroys his brother AxeKnightmon for good, Bagra calls him out on his lack of vision, AxeKnightmonâ€™s true goal being little more than surpassing his older brother in power. Bagra says that itâ€™s his brotherâ€™s lack of vision that made him the inferior of the two for so long. By contrast, Shoutmon, the little Hot-Blooded dragon with a Hair-Trigger Temper, actually earns Bagraâ€™s respect by showing him that he has a true vision for creating a kind Digital World.
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Visionary Villain / int_cd899ed6	comment	In the Grand Finale of Jackie Chan Adventures, Drago reveals that his goal after obtaining the powers of his uncles and aunts is to use it to release all the demons trapped in the Netherworld to create a world controlled by demons with him in charge.
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Visionary Villain / int_cdedd56a	comment	Early on in Exo Squad, the Big Bad Phaeton gives a few passionate speeches justifying Neosapien conquest of the Homeworlds by pointing out that Neosapiens were bred to be smarter and more compliant than Terrans and thus will be able to create a more stable and peaceful society. He appears to believe in it, too, but then plot and character development happen, and he gradually descends into omnicidal madness.
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Visionary Villain / int_ce67d43a	comment	King Gaius from Tales of Xillia: Gather all of the planet's weapons in one place so that the strong can't prey on the weak, and use spyrite to force spirits to undo the wars that would tear apart humanity.
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Visionary Villain / int_d4f4f48c	comment	In The Butcher Bird, Grigori Vinci, captain of the Nightmare Pirates, seeks to find as much knowledge as possible, with the end goal of Complete Immortality for everyone. To this end, he's delved into Bio-Augmentation and Sympathetic Magic, as well as declaring war on the World Government and the Navy in the process.
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Visionary Villain / int_d531b6f7	comment	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has Doctor Totenkopf, disgusted with the world and planning to raze the planet and start over with an Ark of his own design full of animals collected from across the globe. He eventually has a change of heart, but by that time is dying alone on an uncharted island and his robots continue his work without him.
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Visionary Villain / int_d5f2df48	comment	Cyrus of The Riffs in The Warriors. While not a villain from the perspective of the protagonists, his "vision" is that the gangs of New York should unite and take the city for themselves since they far outnumber the police. His assassination and the Warriors being framed for it kicks off the plot.
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Visionary Villain / int_dae48d5a	comment	Z Nation: La Reina, the Queen of the Zeroes Cartel, intends to use the cure for the zombie virus, combined with the vast resources of her cartel (which is basically the only large-scale governing body left in North America post-Zombie Apocalypse), to rebuild society as she sees fit. Dr. Kurian, La Reina's resident Mad Scientist, turns out to be an Evilutionary Biologist, who intends to use Murphy as a template to create an entire race of zombie/human hybrids, who will replace both normal humans and zombies (both of which Kurian sees as doomed to extinction). The end of Season 2 reveals the existence of ZONA, a safe zone established by the rich and powerful of America before it was overwhelmed by the zombies. Like La Reina, they intend to use the cure and their resources to rebuild society in their image. Season 4 takes this even further, with the reveal that they intend to unleash a bioweapon which will kill everything — zombie and human — outside their safe zone, so they can inherit the Earth. By Season 3, Murphy's Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door has settled squarely on Heel, and he's embraced Kurian's vision. He now intends to set himself up as a Dark Messiah, converting people into a new hybrid race that he can control.
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Visionary Villain / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats: Tigerstar dreams of ending the constant war and uniting the four Clans as one, entering a new age of prosperity as a result. Of course, his ego makes him believe that he is the one suitable ruler of this combined Clan, and it leads him down a dark path in his struggles to create it. Hawkfrost, Tigerstar's son from the Sequel Series Warrior Cats: The New Prophecy, follows his father's vision, but is just as egotistical as Tigerstar.
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Visionary Villain / int_db96ded4	comment	In The Legend of Korra, the main villain of each season is an ideologue of some sort. While they have their respective points raised right, all of them are taking their ideology to the extreme, creating more problems instead of solving the problem outright, which leads Avatar Korra and her True Companions to clash against them while at the same time addressing the problem without the unnecessary bloodshed: In Book 1, Amon envisions a completely equal world, without benders, brought about by forcibly purging benders of their "impurity." Naturally, in order to ensure maximum fair-mindedness, this new world order will be governed by the Equalists, an organization led by Amon. It turns out that Amon is himself a very powerful waterbender... and still genuinely believes that bending needs to be eliminated from the world. His issues stem from his self-hate of believing that bending caused him so much misfortune in his life at the hands of his Abusive Dad that his strong sense of justice becomes so twisted that it enables him to become a hypocritical Knight Templar he presents himself as during his debut. In Book 2, Chief Unalaq of the Northern Water Tribe is more than willing to invade the Southern Water Tribe in order to restore spiritual harmony there. His true goal, however, is even more visionary; remove the divide between the spirit and human worlds... by fusing with the spirit of chaos and darkness to effectively rule the world as the Dark Avatar. The only problem is that Vaatu will destroy everything and anything anyway, humans and spirits alike. In Book 3, Zaheer is revealed to be the leader of the Red Lotus, a White Lotus splinter group seeking to bring balance and freedom to the world by toppling all governments and permanently ending the Avatar Cycle. While he raises several points about espousing his freedom, his unrealistic idealism leads him to be narrow-minded of the consequences after achieving his goals, like removing the tyrannical Earth Queen from power. Instead of celebrating its liberation, Earth Kingdom escalated into chaos and caused a new set of problems because of the sudden development; when Korra told him about the Nice Job Breaking It, Hero consequences of that particular action that gives rise to three years of chaos and the rise of the Book 4's villain, he realized that his judgment was lapsed. And destroying the Avatar Cycle? Despite their preparations, they grossly underestimated that the Avatar Spirit is not to be trifled with. In Book 4, Kuvira set out from Zaofu and later the United Republic of Nations (whose territory was once part of the Earth Kingdom) with the intent of reuniting the Earth Kingdom, and later decides that its obsolete monarchy should be replaced with a more forward-looking government... with her holding absolute power as its emperor. Her intentions end up basically like Sozin's — she wants to spread Zaofu's advanced technology to the rest of the kingdom and is genuinely concerned over her country, but she is not above removing people who aren't from the Earth Kingdom and putting them into concentration — ahem, "reeducation" camps, and her unwillingness to admit that she's wrong really costs her everything.
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Visionary Villain / int_dc217e32	comment	Sabrina in PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines dreams of a world that is a meritocracy, where people are free to try and reach the top based on their merits, rather than on things like lineage, and where there's nobody that tries to cut down those with bigger talents to make themselves look better. While that goal isn't so bad by itself, her way of achieving that world involves killing those she considers unremarkable or unworthy, or otherwise doing horrible things to them to give them the motivation to do something remarkable.
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Visionary Villain / int_dc808a1c	comment	Ages of Shadow: Unlike his predecessors as Himinion, Boaz was not content to simply have the Shadow Walkers hide in the shadows and rule over countrysides, worshiping Jade/Yade Khan in secret. Instead, he turned the cult militant, to begin carving out an empire dedicated to Jade's worship and service. After his resurrection, he intends to topple modern civilization and then fuse his soul with a magical clone of Yade Khan, so that he can rule the world in her place. Brenner wants to gain immortality, not for personal gain but to be able to live long enough to eventually free all of humanity from death.
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Visionary Villain / int_e081af79	comment	In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Fructose Riboflavin wants to kill every member of the Nemesite royal family, expecially the emperor (whoever that currently is), as revenge for the late Emperor Krelchzeeber killing Riboflavin's father. It's straightforward (and obsessive) revenge. However, when he's trying to rope others into assisting him, he will sometimes try to paint himself as a revolutionary fighting the Nemesite government on ideological grounds for the benefit of the people; in truth, he couldn't care less about such abstractions or what might come after killing the royal family, he just wants them dead.
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Visionary Villain / int_e199d649	comment	Inheritance Cycle: Galbatorix. He has grand plans for ushering Alagaesia into an era of peace and prosperity. Too bad he uses such brutal means to achieve his endsâ€¦
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Visionary Villain / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Fate Averruncus's organization in Negima! Magister Negi Magi. To the point it's questionable whether his goal is actually that bad and the protagonists are simply opposing the means he's using to bring about that goal. His true ultimate goal is "saving" the Magical World (which will soon suffer complete magical depletion) through an Assimilation Plot, and he progresses towards it: 1: Without informing anyone but select co-conspirators about the true plan, playing the rest as Unwitting Pawns, 2: By engineering wars, unrest and disasters that cause untold suffering on a massive scale, and 3: Stopping at nothing to neutralize anyone who might pose even the slightest threat to his plans, even if that "threat" is the possibility to find out how to Take a Third Option where nobody dies.
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Visionary Villain / int_e89f120b	comment	Quite common, dating back to Gihren Zabi in the original Mobile Suit Gundam. People like Anavel Gato, Char Aznable, Treize Khushrenada, and others fit this trope perfectly. Anavel Gato chews out Kou for not bothering to understand Zeon's objectives and mindlessly serving the Federation. Char has a very well-organized and detailed ideology he inherited from his father and resents Amuro Ray for not being similar ("Unlike you, I'm more than just a pilot!"). Treize, especially, has a vision of the glories and terrors of war and wishes to drive home to humanity the true horrors of warâ€¦ but due to his suicide-through-enemy-fire, he escaped responsibility for his actions.
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Visionary Villain / int_eaeeea9b	comment	StarCraft II: Kerrigan claims that this is one of the most important traits to have if a tyrant wants to outsmart his enemies in seconds. Her potential Bastard Understudy has a lot of trouble understanding this.
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Visionary Villain / int_eb2a8f44	comment	Ash vs. Evil Dead: When Ruby reveals herself as the Big Bad in the first season finale, she explains that she wants to use the Necronomicon to unite all the world's various evils under her control and bring order to the chaos.
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Visionary Villain / int_ed01bf4	comment	Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Brenda Holland, the Corrupt Corporate Executive who manipulated May into unwittingly aiding the Apex Cybernetics precursor AET's cruel research into animal brains, is a true believer in Walter Simmons' plan to use the project to ultimately create Mechagodzilla in response to the Titans' emergence. She's loyal to Walter's inner circle, and she sees the creation of Mechagodzilla as a manmade Titan-shaped machine that's under direct human control via a Brain/Computer Interface as the future of mankind.
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Visionary Villain / int_ee66462b	comment	Dr. STONE: Shishio Tsukasa. After being embittered by the greed and corruption of the 21st century, he decided upon waking into a primitive world thousands of years in the future that he would seize the opportunity to give humanity a fresh start and build a stone-age society in harmony with the natural world. To that end, he immediately set himself to destroying anyone who might return the world to the way it was, particularly Science Hero protagonist Senku, as well as carefully selecting others with the skills to help him achieve his vision.
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Visionary Villain / int_ee6ac780	comment	The Mask of Zorro: Don Rafael Montero desires to make a "free and independent" republic of California (with himself as the ruler of course), which involves using slave labor to dig up the Californian gold ore to use to buy it from General Santa Anna (who is completely unaware of its existence and believes it all comes from Spain). He self-describes himself as a "man with a vision," though his motivations seem to be at least partially based on how he was the military governor of California for Spain before he was ousted and forced to flee so for him, it's partially to take back his "rightful" place.
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Visionary Villain / int_f10619d8	comment	Dorian General Van Grants from Tales of the Abyss: Rescue a world that is sickeningly dependent on Because Destiny Says So from its eventual destruction by replacing everything in said world with perfect replicas that cannot be predicted, thus managing to Screw Destiny.
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Visionary Villain / int_f10a65b	type	Visionary Villain
Visionary Villain / int_f10a65b	comment	In the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Outlaw Country", Quentin Turnbull's plan is to use his dwarf star alloy to take over all the US west of the Rockies and keep, in his words "The Wild West wild". He believes the Wild West represents freedom from government control, and he wants to keep it that way.
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Visionary Villain / int_f38b1d2f	comment	In X-Men: Apocalypse, Apocalypse wants to destroy modern civilization in a global cataclysm which only the strongest will survive, after which he, as the strongest of all, will rule as a God-Emperor. Deconstructed, as his supposed over-idealistic ambition stems from a lack of maturity that comes with always getting what he wanted through power alone, and two of his followers (out of a mere total of four) turn on him for being needlessly cruel and ungrateful.
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Visionary Villain / int_f6093124	comment	In Monstress, the Lord Doctor (Maika's father) claims that he wants to Take Over the World so that he can then restore the long-lost golden age of the Shaman-Empress's time, when Arcanics had such technology as space travel and time manipulation. Maika shoots back that despite all his justifications, all he really wants is to be a god.
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Visionary Villain / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed has The Templars. While the degree to which they are visionaries varies from era to era, the templars in general seek a world free of conflict and pain, with them on top ensuring that all are happy and pacified. In particular, Loreano Torres of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag seeks the observatory as a way to spy on all peoples and ensure a better future for humanity.
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Visionary Villain / int_fb873b86	comment	Saw: After suffering a Trauma Conga Line that culminated in him attempting suicide, John Kramer developed a new outlook on life, feeling that most people are wasting their lives. He kidnaps criminals or assorted jerkasses and puts them through "games" where they must make a Life-or-Limb Decision or kill someone else and, if they survive, hopefully come away from it with a new appreciation for their lives. He's essentially a self-help guru whose idea of "self-help" involves a severed limb or two. It goes to show that he thinks the person who caused his ex-wife to have a miscarriage should be given a second chance. Knowing that he doesn't have long to live, John had recruited apprentices and accomplices (mostly people who survived his traps and adopted his worldview) to help him build his traps and procure new people to "test", as well as spread his message far and wide and take up the Jigsaw mantle after his death. Of all the accomplices, however, only Dr. Lawrence Gordon (who presumably couldn't succeed him due to not being an actual apprentice) can truly be said to have internalized his philosophy. Amanda Young simply murdered people outright with inescapable traps, viewing most of her victims as irredeemable, Mark Hoffman (John's first successor) never believed in his philosophy and simply followed it most of the time to cover himself, and Logan Nelson (a former apprentice who wasn't active until years after John and the other accomplices either died or were left with their fates hanging) went with his own idea of Jigsaw to enact revenge against those who wronged him. William Schenk, the copycat killer from Spiral, uses the Jigsaw killers' traps but has his own agenda, seeking to purge the Metropolitan Police Department of all its corrupt officers.
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Visionary Villain / int_ff2a9136	comment	Obould Many-Arrows from The Hunter's Blades Trilogy of The Legend of Drizzt is an orc who has realized that the orcish traditional lifestyle of mindlessly raiding and pillaging is why the other races keep driving them back to the brink of extinction, and so he seeks to give them a better life. Using From A Certain Point of View, he convinces the Chaotic Evil orcish patron Gruumsh to empower him, and then uses that power to carve out the first-ever orcish kingdom and homeland. And then he stops conquering and settles for actually ruling his empire, showing orcs that there is more prosperity to be had by farming and trading than there is by being ravening hordes. Within a decade, the peace is strong enough that humans and orcs are freely trading, and even voluntarily intermarrying.
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Visionary Villain / int_ff8dd2b2	comment	The Wheel of Time (2021): Unlike the other Forsaken, who want personal power, Ishamael knows the Dark One will destroy the world - which he wants, as he sees it as filled with pain and wishes for Cessation of Existence so he can escape Reincarnation.
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8 Man After / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Texhnolyze / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Anarky (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Beast Wars: Uprising (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Monstress (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Red Skull (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Scooby Apocalypse (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Transformers Megaseries (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
30 Days of Night (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Vampire: The Masquerade (Vault) (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Vandal Savage (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Wanted (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
From Hell / Comicbook / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
New Avengers (2015) (Comic Book) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Ra's Al-Ghul / Comicbook	seeAlso	Visionary Villain
AsTimeDivergesTheMitakiharaCase	seeAlso	Visionary Villain
The Very Secret Diary / Fan Fic / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
A Moth to a Flame (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Another Form Of Power (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Apotheosis (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Astral Disaster (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Chronicles Of The Wayward Tome Hero (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Dire Worm! (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Fallen Kingdom (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Knight of Salem (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Old West (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Running From Trouble (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Saga Of Tanya The Firebender (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Ultimate Spider-Woman (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
White (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Crimson Garment (Fanfic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Black Panther (2018) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Darkman / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Demolition Man / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Mortal Engines / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Network / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
On Guard / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Romancing the Stone / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Rosemary's Baby / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Sneakers / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Snowpiercer / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Space Sweepers / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Street Fighter / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Amazing Spider-Man / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Colony (2021) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Dark Knight Rises / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Fate of the Furious / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Harder They Fall (2021) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Lone Ranger (2013) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Long Good Friday / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
TRON: Legacy / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
24 Hours to Live / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Watchmen / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Who Framed Roger Rabbit / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Wild Wild West / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
X-Men: Days of Future Past / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
X-Men: First Class / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
A Master of Djinn / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Aftermath: Life Debt / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Angel in the Whirlwind / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Arc of a Scythe / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Crier's War / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Darth Bane / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Dragon Calling / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
How to Succeed in Evil / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Imperium / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Necroscope / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Reconstruction Series / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Sholan Alliance / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Arts of Dark and Light / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Autobiography of Spock / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Immortal Rules / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Last King of Osten Ard / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Legend of Drizzt / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Troy Saga / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Upgrade / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Lukebn	seeAlso	Visionary Villain
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	Visionary Villain
VandalSavage	seeAlso	Visionary Villain
War of the Confederation	seeAlso	Visionary Villain
Death Note (Manga) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Lost+Brain (Manga) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Tricks Dedicated to Witches (Manga) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Vinland Saga (Manga) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Operation: Mindcrime (Music) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Regal Pinion (Music) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Protomen Tropes (Music)	seeAlso	Visionary Villain
The Wall (Music) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Friends at the Table (Podcast) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
A Destiny of Strife, a Hollow's Quest (Bleach) (Roleplay) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
A Destiny of Strife, a Hollow's Quest (Bleach) (Roleplay) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
World Of Omni (Roleplay) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Ash vs. Evil Dead / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Day of the Dead (2021) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
iZombie / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Inhumans / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Krypton / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Luke Cage (2016) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Misfits / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
RoboCop: The Series / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Star Trek: Voyager / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Last Ship / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Timeless / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Wiseguy / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Wynonna Earp / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Pokémon Live! (Theatre) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Battlefield Hardline (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Command & Conquer: Red Alert (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Deathloop (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Exit Fate (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Garou: Mark of the Wolves (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
I Expect You To Die (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Metal Marines (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Phoenotopia (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Rengoku (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Rise of the Reds (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Roadkill (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Frontier (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Vernal Edge (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Sharin no Kuni (Visual Novel) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
A Fox in Space (Web Animation) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Juathuur (Webcomic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Station Square (Webcomic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Water Phoenix King (Webcomic) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (Website) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Superjail! / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Point / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
X-Men: Evolution / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Kenny Omega (Wrestling) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
MJF (Wrestling) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Everworld / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
visionaryvillain	sameAs	Visionary Villain
Appleseed (Manga) / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain

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